It's been a rough year for local-music dinosaurs. The ever-irrelevant Boston Music Awards locked out the public and fulfilled their mission of becoming an event that only 250 industry types vote on or care about. And the Rumble, along with WBCN, has been shelved by its corporate overlords.

So when we huddled up to start thinking about the 2010 BEST MUSIC POLL -- Boston's only democratic expression of musical awesomeness -- we decided to try something new and simple.

Boston PhoenixArtbeat in Davis SquarePublished 7/14/2010 by webteam
The Somerville Arts Council has booked a ton of great acts for this year's Artbeat. On Friday, check out Jef Czekaj of Big Digits, Walter...